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c0ldb33r
03-24-2009, 10:42 PM
I noticed something just now - if you go to page 1504 of the classic gaming forum, you get posts with a last post date of January 1, 1970. The threads have titles, but when you click on the threads there are no posts.
What gives?
Sonicwolf
03-24-2009, 10:47 PM
I noticed something just now - if you go to page 1504 of the classic gaming forum, you get posts with a last post date of January 1, 1970. The threads have titles, but when you click on the threads there are no posts.
What gives?
The forum was probably buggered up at the time of those posts.
Phosphor Dot Fossils
03-24-2009, 10:48 PM
DP's been around longer than you think! :evil:
Tupin
03-24-2009, 10:50 PM
Unix time, maybe? The Year 2038 Problem?
I don't know.
Ed Oscuro
03-24-2009, 10:53 PM
It's actually on "newer" pages than that.
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3719
I knew MAME was old, but...
Anyhow, January 1, 1970 seems to be the board software's (or some software used in running the board) default date, used so that it won't crash if there's no date given on a topic and also as a marker for archival reasons most likely.
I would guess that a merge of old threads into the new software left dates out or they weren't taking for some reason, so it just filled in.
If you have Steam, you can see another version of this same phenomenon by looking at the update news for the FEAR II demo (or any other game without release news or updates).
Or check out the date a PC will show if the CMOS / lithium clock battery dies - usually something like 1/1/1980 (probably a legacy of IBM's rolling out the IBM PC architecture in 1981). The date is seems usually chosen with a view that you want something relatively close to where a message could have been written at earliest, but no earlier.
Superman
03-25-2009, 12:43 AM
What were you doing on page 1504, C0ldb33r?
If you're on the last page, does that mean you are done with this site? ;)
Haoie
03-25-2009, 03:13 AM
Ha, I wonder what folks called classic gaming in 1970!!
maybe Space War (1962) was concidered 'Retro'
FantasiaWHT
03-25-2009, 09:03 AM
What were you doing on page 1504, C0ldb33r?
If you're on the last page, does that mean you are done with this site? ;)
Yeah that was my question too haha.
Icarus Moonsight
03-25-2009, 09:31 AM
Don't try to go to page 1505... it's a warp pipe to the minus world! :eek:
c0ldb33r
03-25-2009, 09:50 AM
What were you doing on page 1504, C0ldb33r?
Yupp, I've reached the end. I've read each and every thread on this forum. Now I'm off to some other forum to absorb its information.
Actually I was just curious what threads would have been active when the forum first opened and so I clicked "Last" on the jump-to page index at the bottom of the screen.
GrandAmChandler
03-25-2009, 10:18 AM
DP Admins, we have a CODE BLUE. Please utilize procedure "C" under Paragraph II and begin "Operation Rubber Band" the rest of the moderation team will then follow suit.
-GAC-
intvsama
03-25-2009, 10:37 AM
*puts on his Ray-Bans*
jb143
03-25-2009, 11:31 AM
That's the Unix epoch date. 00:00:00 for computers is on January 1, 1970 and most GetTime funtions on computers return the number of seconds from that time and date.
I'm not sure why the dates are set to that but that's why it would be that particular date.
calistarwind
03-25-2009, 12:54 PM
Ha, I wonder what folks called classic gaming in 1970!!
They called it..The Future!
Phosphor Dot Fossils
03-25-2009, 02:26 PM
All of DP has happened before, and all of DP will happen again.
c0ldb33r
03-25-2009, 02:32 PM
DP Admins, we have a CODE BLUE. Please utilize procedure "C" under Paragraph II and begin "Operation Rubber Band" the rest of the moderation team will then follow suit.
I picture something like this being involved:
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s182/c0ldb33r/self-destruct-button.jpg
Ed Oscuro
03-25-2009, 02:57 PM
DP Admins, we have a CODE BLUE. Please utilize procedure "C" under Paragraph II and begin "Operation Rubber Band" the rest of the moderation team will then follow suit.
-GAC-
ooh!
/me squeezes in real close to the next forumer
http://media.steampowered.com/steamcommunity/public/images/avatars/b1/b1ac6371377044fa71a6b2ae465c7f2973bd6137_full.jpg
(Please note: this post was written by Chell; I'm not responsible for its tone, content, or any injuries resulting from misuse of leg springs.)
Icarus Moonsight
03-26-2009, 09:10 AM
Can I push the button!? :D
jcalder8
03-26-2009, 10:28 AM
I picture something like this being involved:
Come on c0ldb33r you've been here longer than that.
Around here it involves something like this:
http://men.style.com/images/details/wiseguy/0507/detailsfeatures9v.jpg
RASK1904
03-27-2009, 04:43 AM
I was thinking about something like this. Ok so I'm kinda new here. And I want to know some gross games. So before I do a new thread I search to make sure it hasn't been done. Becuase if it has I'll just read that one. But it hasn't been done? Never? I don't know how old the site is but? Thats just one example. I did a funky ps1 one to? Never? I think what happens is after a while they cant save the info so it's gotta go. Something like the cost of bandwidth.... I don't know. So realy alot of threads have been done before just along time ago and no one remembers. There gone. Makes cents in my head.$